St Marys High School - Vale Yearbook (Clarksburg, WV)

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SA I1 .l1lS1PH'S ACADEMY 5 A M, If ' - Q: F 'F - A 33 'az'-fwfr' , - ' , 1 . HS H I U k R H E f V , . 1 'blfillllfil ' A 'I un P I ,. nl I I V1 nl -A as :AAA :ii , X .I IJ. 1 4, 1 ,ki QQ 1 . H l 4 A. ., ,,.., --uri' '+- 1 xx-J 'xii 12 ,,,,., - 60' , W- A ' it- ' ' .A ' . J Saint Joseph's Academy served as a boarding school for girls from 1872. to 1911. Protestants as well as Catholics were admitted. In 1911, the Acad- emy was open today students only. The curriculum conformed to the four -year course followed by most high schools. Commercial department was introduced, music and elocution were taught. In 1914, when Saint Mary's High School for boys was completed, Centennial Hall was discontinued. The girls were trans- ferred tothe Academy. In 1924 it was necessary to combine boys and girls in first, second, and third grades, and later, the two schools, Saint Joseph's Academy and Saint Mary's High School, merged. The old Academy building, upon which the years have levied heavy toll, was used a short time as a pre- paratory school for young women desiring to enter the novitiate of Saint Jos eph's Convent. Laterthe structure served as nurses' home for the students of Saint Mary's Hospital Training School, and at present is serving as classrooms for the first and second grades of Saint Mary's.

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'r vb- f .Q , 4 equal THE VERY REVEREND JOHN J. O'BRIEN, V,F Present Pastor, Immaculate Conception Church

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THE REVEREND DANIEL. M. KIRWIN, S,T.L., M. Ed. Superintendent of Diocesan Schools 'YA 5 THE REVEREND ANDREW HEANEY Assistant at Immaculate Conception Church Instructor in Religion